Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by theaccordance » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

I could, but JavaScript has such a broad application these days that you should be more specific as to what you're goals are

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by arihant » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 5:32 PM UTC

If you're willing to learn about patterns, jQuery and Underscore.js are excellent places to look at.

If you're looking for something harder and unconventional, see React source. It also has some low hanging fruit for pull requests.

If documentation and comments are important for you to learn, Backbone.js is way ahead of everyone else in those terms.

I would also look at smaller indie projects. The source is smaller, forking and adding something is easier. Pull requests are easier too.

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by at-fates-hands » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 5:41 PM UTC

Its funny everybody is talking about Backbone. With all the new frameworks out there, Backbone seems to be forgotten. And yet, it's persevered and continues to improve itself seemingly now under the radar.

It's such a straight forward library to use and build stuff with - plus the code is very well annotated for anybody just starting out.

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by 0xdeadbeefbabe » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 6:02 PM UTC

This is an impossible question to answer correctly.

https://github.com/hybridgroup/cylon-sphero because you can use it to control robots?

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by tonyhb » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 6:12 PM UTC

almog wrote: post #12

tonyhb wrote: post #10

Reflux and it's associated tools for some concise, well written ES6/7 patterns ( https://github.com/gaearon/redux ) Gaearon is actually a hell of a JS developer ( https://github.com/gaearon ).

You mentioned Reflux but linked to Redux.

Ah, apologies, meant Redux. So many flux frameworks and their names are all similar.

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by GordyMD » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 6:25 PM UTC

tonyhb wrote: post #10

Reflux and it's associated tools for some concise, well written ES6/7 patterns ( https://github.com/gaearon/redux ) Gaearon is actually a hell of a JS developer ( https://github.com/gaearon ).

Not a readable resource, but I feel it is worth the exception - Watch Dan Abramov's talk [1] about Redux (Reducers + Flux). Gives great insight into his motivation for creating React Hot Loader and Redux.

+1 for Dan (aka Gaearon) being an excellent developer

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by Nemcue » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 6:38 PM UTC

azeirah wrote: post #16

Take a look at the d3.js source code

This is not good advice.

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by Joeri » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 7:00 PM UTC

edwinnathaniel wrote: post #17

I'm also interested to see a mid-size scale SPA project that has excellent unit-testing and integration-testing. I've read a lot about how JS can make programmer productive, I've also read a lot how code can be succinct and all that jazz because of JS, but I have _never seen_ a well-architected, well-documented, well-automated-tested non-todomvc SPA codebase. This isn't a sarcasm or criticism but a serious and legiti…

I tried doing unit testing on our SPA codebase (200 k lines JS) for a while, but found it to not be worth the effort. UI is better tested through integration tests. We use selenium instead of jasmine these days. We have a ton of unit tests in the server code though, because it makes more sense there.